New Order to release EP of outtakes from final album

Former bassist Peter Hook reckons new material will 'draw a line' under band's split

New Order will release a new EP comprised of outtakes from their final studio album.

The ‘Lost Sirens’ EP will be made up of material that didn’t make it onto the electronic pioneers’ 2005 effort ‘Waiting For The Sirens’ Call’, and is due for release in December.

Slicingupeyeballs.com are reporting that although the band haven’t officially confirmed the release of the EP, it will feature tracks from their final recording sessions as well as the song ‘Hellbent’, which was included on the joint Joy Division and New Order compilation album ‘Total’ that was released earlier this year.

Hook had told the same site in August that he wanted to release the unused material as a way of bringing closure to his time in New Order.

He said:

It would be nice, from my point of view, to get rid of those tracks in the nicest possible way that would at last draw a line under the New Order split-up in 2006. It hasn’t felt clean in any way, to be honest. So I’m hoping the release of the last remaining material will make it a little cleaner.